Niu Dali's alias: lotus root. Pig's foot, lotus root, golden bell root.

Niu Dali:

Niu Dali, alias pig's foot, lotus root, and golden bell root, is a Chinese medicine name, belonging to the genus Viburnum in Leguminosae. The bark of Vicia elegans is brown, the branchlets are cylindrical, the stipules are lanceolate, the leaflets are hard papery, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, and the base is obtuse.

Bracts are acicular-ovoid, shedding, bracteoles are ovoid, free from calyx, flowers are large and fragrant, and pedicels, calyx and inflorescence axis are covered with yellow-brown fluff. The corolla is white, beige to reddish, the flag petal is hairless, the disk is tubular, the pods are linear, and the seeds are ovoid. It blooms from July to October and bears fruit in February of the following year.

habitats

are distributed in China, China, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan. It is also distributed in Vietnam. Crotalaria elegans generally grows in deep mountains or valleys, and has strong adaptability to the natural environment, no special requirements for climate and soil quality, and strong drought resistance, cold resistance and pest resistance, which can fully adapt to large-scale artificial planting.